theonion.com/de-blasio-we...

This, but for Levar

Not to put too fine a point on it here, but I'm an independent journalist with no budget who *doesn't even cover Richmond as my actual beat.* I started asking basic, critical questions about the RPD's surveillance system, and instead of sitting for an interview, the mayor convened a spin room.

Man on stoop with his head between his knees. Graffiti behind him days "G.G."

528 S Pine St. It's seen some stuff.
yesterdays.maprva.org/37066/

remember, doing this for voting or w2s would be communism

This is @dinfontay.com's office, right?

What up, Riverbend Roastery?

#rva

New pre-print! I cover a range of open capture-recapture models (single survey/robust design, multistate/multievent, in (Cormack-)Jolly-Seber variants) in Stan, and provide efficient log likelihood functions. I also introduce a method to account for unequal survey intervals in the entry process.

Shockoe Hill Cemetery mapping with MapRVA Shockoe Hill Cemetery mapping with MapRVA, 7th April 18:30 – 19:30 at Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Meet any time after 6PM. We plan to take some street-level imagery, place some photos…

Join us as we map Shockoe Hill Cemetery tomorrow! We'll be there from 6:30-7:30, mapping some famous "residents", and taking street-level imagery to allow people to take in the historic space from their own home.

https://osmcal.org/event/4680/

MS DOOM

Last month I presented at #Code4Lib: www.youtube.com/live/6nBJ… While preparing the slides, 10 minutes was feeling really short (especially for a new audience) but I reworked some things and I think it’s actually the best introductory talk about the project I’ve given!

Day Counter

#rstats gets a new 'R FAQ 7.31' illustration thanks to @xkcd.com . Excellent alt-text / hover too, as usual: "It has been −2,147,483,648 days since our last integer overflow."

xkcd.com/3228/

Apple presents the iRack YouTube video by MadtvOnFox

I wonder if the MadTV writers thought this skit would be completely applicable 20 years later.

New paper out today! Using accelerometers to generate thermal performance curves in great hammerhead sharks. Their low activation energies may explain why they can perform well across seasons.

an older woman wearing glasses says i saw with my own eyes Alt: an older woman wearing glasses says i saw with my own eyes

This is not an April fool's post.

Connecticut – Yesterdays sculpture by Paul DiPasquale

So... Just learned today that Connecticut is currently sitting in the front yard of a house in Fulton. #rva

That's just their blogspot

richmondvastreetcloser.blogspot.com?m=1

Top headlines: Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash. Sources: Sun sold, will relocate to Houston in '27

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

Richmond officials charge $5.7K FOIA fee for financial info city is required to publish The city said it would cost at least $5.7K for a copy of its payment register that's supposed to be available online.

"I’m not surprised that the city is proud to have published a payment register that omits the names of the payees, but frankly — it’s embarrassing,' [3rd District Councilmember Kenya] Gibson said. 'The Richmonders I know won’t be fooled to believe that this is what being transparent looks like.'"

Great reporting by Graham Moomaw: he filed a FOIA request for the financial data Richmond, Virginia was supposed to be publishing online, by law.
City officials claimed it would cost $5.7K+, & only released a scrubbed payees & procurements.
The kicker: Richmond stopped publishing the data… in 2019.

http://www.rvastreetart.com/ 2012-04-13 21:17:40 Marc Schmidt Flickr

Georeferences as of 2026-03-26. Picture shows a field of blue dots in the center of a map representing georeferences of the subject.

That's a lot of random images. How about poking through the 78 images tagged of "mural"?
https://yesterdays.maprva.org/subjects/mural
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q219423

Dominion produces first power from Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project • Virginia Mercury Dominion Energy’s major Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is now sending power to the grid, after its first commercial turbine was switched on Monday

Dominion Energy says its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project has generated its first power, marking a major milestone for what’s set to become the nation’s largest offshore wind farm once completed.

virginiamercury.com/briefs/domin...

New preprint 📑 Fast inference in HMMs with latent Gaussian fields (via SPDE approach + RTMB) ⚡️

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2603.17469

We modify the forward algorithm to recover a sparse Hessian ➡️ Fast automatic Laplace approximation

Case studies: 1) Detecting stellar flares 2) Lion movement w spatial field

A screenshot of a slide. The title is "Open access: death of a dream". On the left hand side is the title and abstract of a paper published in 2021 estimating the actual costs of publishing an academic paper as between $200 and $1000 dollars, with high-profile journals with high rejection rates being towards the upper end and $400 being the cost for an "average" paper. On the right is a table of glamour mags and their APCs: $11400 for Cell, $12850 for Nature and all the hybrid Nature XX journals, $7350 for Nature communications, $7170 for the Lancet and $7030 for Current Biology.

I'm writing a talk on the current problems with scientific publishing. It's getting harder and harder to avoid just screaming at the computer. Here's a typical slide 🧪

Lithographic print of tobacco label showing a dog dressed in a jacket, shirt and cravat sitting at a table; drink with straw, a newspaper and pouch of tobacco sit in front of him; text "The Old Sport" along bottom.

ID: /-#V.74.83.98
The Old Sport
Date: Late 19th century - Early 20th century
Artist: Liebler and Maass
valentine.rediscoverysoftware.com/MADetailB.aspx

A picture of a LEGO Maersk cargo ship

A picture of an assembled LEGO Maersk cargo ship

if you build the LEGO container ship in the US is it technically Jones Act compliant?

Gulls may facilitate landscape connectivity via nutrient and pathogen transport and deposition. Using GPS tracking, this #RSOS study analysed the foraging movement networks of breeding American #herring and great black-backed #gulls from two colonies: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

A poster that reads, among other things, "coprolites aren't my favorite fossil, but they're a solid #2".

Poop rocks

honestly i feel like we need to start defaulting to these text-only versions of news sites where they exist